Play-guitar-lesson.com

This is a beginner’s guide to guitar playing. They have an immediate download that costs $12.95 which has 40 pages of step by step instructions.

Visit Site: http://www.play-guitar-lesson.com/

Levels: Beginner

Metalriffs.com

This site has a good archive of accurate tabs and lessons in tablature with most havingMP3 and/or midi files. There are a large number that are free to download, but many are on the metalriffs.com CD-ROM which costs $14.95.

Visit Site: http://www.metalriffs.com/

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Specific Genres:
1. Metal

Justacoustic.com

A comprehensive looking site which offers a full course for playing folk/acoustic guitar at a cost of $34.95/year.

Visit Site: http://justacoustic.com/

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate

Specific Genres:
1. Acoustic

Guitartutoronline.com

This site promotes a comprehensive guitar lessons CD-ROM written by the author of the site. Judging from the free sample songs listed such as Hotel California and I’m a believer, the CD-ROM would probably be well worth the $10 he is charging. The 13 free lessons on the site go into great detail and are well laid out.

Visit Site: http://www.guitartutoronline.com/

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate

Other Resources:
1. CD-ROM (on sale)

Guitarteacher.com

An interesting lessons site which also offers free group lessons over the internet. There are quite a few good lessons for free in the archives section, although some of the links are broken. Most of the lessons have audio as well which makes it easier to follow. You have to install their plug-in to hear the audio files.

They sell CDs on various styles for $10.99 each.

Visit Site: http://www.guitarteacher.com/

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate

Other Resources:
1. Free internet lessons
2. Forum

Guitaremergency.com

This site offers a $9.95 DVD or downloadable version of their Guitar Emergency Course, which has been sold since 1988.

Visit Site: http://www.guitaremergency.com/

Guitar Concept

Guitar concept is a paid site which teaches the location of the notes on the guitar neck quickly and easily. They say that the fretboard maping technique assures that learning the notes and frets will be painless.

I haven’t joined up so this site hasn’t been reviewed yet.

Visit Site: http://guitarconcept.home.att.net/guitarlesson.html

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate

Guitarcollege.com

This is a paid site with 17 different lesson categories including jazz, blues, country and fingerstyle.

Visit Site: http://guitarcollege.com/

Guitar Alliance

This site has a number of themed sections for Acoustic, Blues and Bass etc. Leesons cost  $39.95.

Visit Site: http://guitaralliance.com/

Specific Genres:
1. Blues
2. Acoustic

Guitar.ch

This is a paid site with lesson resources on Pentatonic and modal licks, chord finder references, scales etc.

There are a few accurate guitar tabs under the ‘Fakebook’ section and a good links section.

Visit Site: http://www.guitar.ch/

Levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Other Resources:
1. Guitar tablature for a limited number of songs.